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by Rudy Rucker (w/B. Sterling)

Enjoyable story is a pastiche of Silicon Valley start-up and Big Oil manipulation. Tug's artificial jellyfish algorithms come to life in a mysterious jelly-like substance found in depleted oil wells. This story is has some similarities to Dean Koontz' 1983 novel Phantoms. Find more works by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling.

Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:

Cybernetic Jellyfish Evolve
   Interesting art video and Sterling/Rucker short story come together.

Artificial Jellyfish Swims On Its Own
   'It was a chemotactic artificial jellyfish designed to slither into undersea vents...'

Festo's AquaJellies 2.0
   'It was a chemotactic artificial jellyfish designed to slither into undersea vents...' - Rucker/Sterling, 1994.

Squid-Like Robots Soon To Be 3D Printable
   'It was a chemotactic artificial jellyfish designed to slither...' Rucker and Sterling, 1994.

Underwater Robot Moves Like A Jellyfish
   'It was a chemotactic artificial jellyfish...' - Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, 1994.

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